Harry Josephine Giles is a writer and performer from Orkney, Scotland, living in Leith. Their verse novel „Deep Wheel Orcadia“ was published by Picador in October 2021 and won the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction book of the year. The poetry collections „The Games“ (Out-Spoken Press 2018) and „Tonguit“ (Freight Books 2015) were between them shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Saltire Prize and the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. Giles has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Stirling, Scotland.